This year our school is launching a values education project with the focus on 4 virtues – ‘compassion, justice, integrity and self-control’ (‘JICS’). The ‘Values, We Value: JICS’ project aims to instil in students positive values and attitudes especially through the learning and teaching of English language. Apart from infusing the theme of ‘Crime’ into the design of learning and teaching materials, a wide array of crime-themed activities will take place both within and beyond the classroom throughout the school year.

Spearheading the project is its writing programme which just kicked off this month. Student participants are learning journalistic writing and interview skills from a professional reporter in a series of workshops. The budding journalists will be interviewing people whose lives are, in one way or another, related to ‘crime’. Recently, on 17th October, participants conducted their first interview. Their interviewee was Mr Samuel Chan Ka-yan (BBS, JP), the Chairperson of the Competition Commission, who has been a barrister contributing to Hong Kong’s legal community and society at large since 1989. It was an invaluable learning opportunity as Mr Chan generously shared his professional and personal experiences, as well as his wisdom and insights on both law and life.

This writing project will culminate in a publication which will include all the interviews and fascinating life stories of truly inspiring people. Watch this space as there is more to come!